Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked why she allowed the computer so to dominate in this way , she replied ‘ It 's the first time they have been quiet for a whole week ! ’ , reflecting the second cause in the list above . |
| 2 | If ‘ The Hollow Men ’ traces the degeneration of ritual to a final babyish ‘ whimper ’ , then Sweeney Agonistes attempts to reconstruct the most basic rituals only to end in a bang . |
| 3 | ‘ No means no , my brother/Are you deaf in your ear , motherfucker ? ’ , is the chorus , catchy enough to stick in the minds of youthful listeners . |
| 4 | ‘ No more games , ’ he said roughly , as he finally had to draw his mouth away to drag in a quick snatch of breath . |
| 5 | ‘ I have not come to the North-East just to play in the FA Cup , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The elimination of Australian Dave Macaulay and Hawaiian Derek Ho , who would have had to win to keep their hopes alive , means that with one contest still to run in the Hawaiian Triple Crown he can no longer be overhauled . |
| 7 | As regards the public perception of the term ‘ antique ’ , I think it would be fair to say that a great many of today 's most eminent collectors , particularly in America , and public institutions , are definitely beginning to interpret the word far more loosely than its previously accepted definition of ‘ a hundred years old ’ and , it is clearly a great shame that two of the most original and internationally influential artistic styles ever to emerge in Britain are almost entirely excluded from the Fair : the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau , on the basis of age . |
| 8 | The disabled lobby in the arts must take credit for the work they have done in making galleries more accessible , but there is a great deal more to do in order to encourage and demonstrate the creative talents of older people that undoubtedly exist . |
| 9 | Luke , 23 , left the bungalow in Camberley , Surrey , nine months ago to live in a rented house five miles away . |
| 10 | I was kept in a cell overnight to appear in court the next morning . |
| 11 | If there is a distinction between a failure to consent and a refusal of consent , it is because a refusal can take the form of a declaration of intention never to consent in the future or never to consent in some future circumstances . |
| 12 | It is on behalf of the latter that we should have had an opportunity of voting in Committee , which we were denied , and that we should have an opportunity tonight to vote in the House . |
| 13 | Twelve hours just to get in the right position |
| 14 | I 've been retired from playing for five years , although this season I messed about a bit just to keep in touch with what was going on , and I really do think that someone else should have the honour of captaining the team . |
| 15 | She has even suggested that a little less fishing might deplete the shoals enough to squeeze in a few vegetables . |
| 16 | Labour 's National Investment Bank , operating on strictly commercial lines , will bring public and private sector together to invest in long-term regional and national infrastructure projects . |
| 17 | There 's a lot of work still to do in the barn . |
| 18 | ‘ There is a lot of work still to do in this match and we must concentrate on getting the right total in our second innings . |
| 19 | To supplement , strengthen or , as some think , to contradict the legislation of 1986 , the 1988 Education Reform Act made it possible for parents directly to intervene in their children 's schooling through a complaints procedure ( Maclure 1989:22 — 3 ) : In terms of a market ideology , this gives the consumers ( i.e. the parents , who throughout the Act are seen as surrogate consumers for their sons and daughters ) a chance to act if they believe there is a failure to deliver the curriculum to which they are , by law , entitled . |
| 20 | DENMARK scraped a narrow but precious 1–0 over Albania in Tirana yesterday to stay in second place in Group Three . |
| 21 | Just one more law hard to argue in court . |
| 22 | Mushtaq , bowling with the breeze behind him , dispatched Hick with a perfect legbreak and then hit Smith 's stumps as he tried to glance , a round-the-legs dismissal almost to rank in shuddering significance for England with Peter May 's notorious ‘ b Benaud 0 ’ at Manchester in 1961 . |
| 23 | So dependence on the mother leads the child actively to believe in what is essentially a dishonesty on her part . |
| 24 | TWO GREAT British pop institutions , both of whom are maverick enough to belong in an institution . |
| 25 | We were the first British team ever to play in St Thomas and Tortoal ; in Anguilla we made history again because we played the first ever ‘ first-class ’ in England but it certainly will in Anguilla ! |
| 26 | It also appears that dormant L3 in the muscles of both bitches and dogs can recommence migration months or years later to mature in the host 's intestine . |
| 27 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 28 | She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States . |
| 29 | ‘ I wanted it ’ , he concluded the note already quoted , ‘ because I saw no other weapon then to use in the fight against unemployment . ’ |
| 30 | A variant would partly ’ privatise ’ social security by cutting benefits ( and payroll taxes ) and getting workers instead to invest in private pension funds . |